Endowments allow us to recruit and retain outstanding faculty to further research and recruit academically exceptional doctoral students. These endowments help supplement salaries, pay for travel, provide needed equipment and supplies for research and teaching, and other items crucial to our mission but not funded through state dollars.

The Institute of Higher Education Endowment Funds:

Louise McBee Professorship: The Louise McBee Professorship in Higher Education was established in recognition of the quarter-century of distinguished service that Dr. McBee rendered to the University of Georgia as faculty member and administrator and in recognition of her continuing public service to the state of Georgia as a member of the Georgia General Assembly. The McBee Professor is a nationally distinguished scholar who directs and supervises advanced doctoral students, conducts research, and advances the multi-disciplinary character of the Institute.

Zell Miller Distinguished Professorship: Zell B. Miller served Georgia with distinction as lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator as well as in other governmental capacities. He achieved national eminence as one of the strongest pro-education governors in the history of the United States. His governorship was marked by keen attention to higher education and to the relationships between higher education and economic development. The Zell Miller Distinguished Professorship in Higher Education has added substantially to the quality and depth of the Institute. This professorship emphasizes the economic role of higher education in public policy, stressing the role of postsecondary education in state, regional, and national economic development as well as other aspects of higher education. It is held by a scholar of national eminence, who teaches courses, directs and supervises advanced doctoral students, conducts research, and engages in public service and outreach.

Please contact Libby V. Morris (lvmorris@uga.edu or 706-542-3464) for information concerning present and future endowments for the Institute.